7 Quotes by Mark Steel

As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.

Devrimler, seçkinlere karşı kendiliğinden isyanlardan daha fazlasına ihtiyaç duyar. Devrimler, sadece yöneticinin veya birkaç yasanın değişmesiyle yetinmeyen, ama aşağıdan yukarıya toplumun her yönünü kavrayan yeni bir etik sistem getirmeye çalışan bir toplumsal kesimin varlığını gerektirir.

The statement by Paul McCartney that, although he was a pacifist, he couldn’t be at this time of war. Which is as daft as being a vegetarian between meals.

The annoying thing about being an atheist is that you’ll never have the satifaction of saying to believers, ‘I told you so.’

Aristotle compiled the first known comprehensive list of all winners of the Olympic Games. Which means that quite probably he was sat in a bar with Plato, muttering ‘Go on then, give me any year you like and I’ll tell you who won the four-man bobsleigh.’

We really want to thank everyone for their kindness and generosity, even those who aren’t helping us directly.

An army of experts assured us on a daily basis that this boom couldn’t possibly crash like previous booms because this boom was still going on whereas all previous booms had ended.